Re: New package: gv-3.5.8-1

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>]

On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 01:34:57PM -0500, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
>Hmm...
>
>Well, we never really defined what the policy was regarding 
>announcements.  I have been cross-posting them for years now :)
>
>I'm the one that told Volker to do the cross-post, it is my fault.  He 
>was just doing what I asked him to do.
>
>I also was not able to get the list of subscribers for both lists until 
>recently.  One list has about 340 people while the other has about 370. 
> It seems that there is a lot of overlap, so it would probably be okay 
>to stop posting announcements at cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com.
>
>Heck, I didn't even realize that so many people were signed up for 
>cygwin-xfree-announce.  I thought it was being ignored.  Guess I should 
>have checked those lists earlier.
>
>I guess that is it then.  The policy is changed.  I won't cross-post 
>announcements anymore.
>
>Thanks for making me think this through :)

FWIW, cygwin-announce email shows up on cygwin thanks to a repeater
running on my system.  I did this because people on the cygwin list
complained that they weren't seeing announcements and didn't want to
have to subscribe to two mailing lists.

Just a different point of view, I guess.

cgf